Category: World

On this day in history: Aug. 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb used in warfare was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, by an American B-29 bomber. The United States remains the only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime. Since 1940, the…

The Pentagon detected a ballistic missile launch out of North Korea at approximately 10:45 am. EST on Friday, only days after state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported a threatened a nuclear strike on “the heart of the US” if America attempts…

Russia will seize two American properties in Moscow and some diplomatic staff will be forced to leave the country in retaliation for new sanctions against the Kremlin approved this week by Congress. A Russian Foreign Ministry statement said that by Sept. 1,…

Senators are sending legislation slapping new sanctions on Moscow to President Trump’s desk, setting up a potential showdown with the White House over Russia. Senators voted to pass the bill, which would give Congress the ability to block Trump from lifting…

IC 342 is a challenging cosmic target. Although it is bright, the galaxy sits near the equator of the Milky Way’s galactic disk, where the sky is thick with glowing cosmic gas, bright stars, and dark, obscuring dust. In order…

U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Amendments Act (S. 1595), bipartisan legislation that would strengthen and expand the scope of economic and financial sanctions imposed by the Hizballah…

Amid the worst drought in nearly two decades in North Korea (the Democratic Republic of Korea), the United Nations agricultural agency is calling for emergency food assistance, as well as irrigation and farming equipment, to help farmers get through the…

The United Nations refugee agency said that it is “deeply shocked and saddened” at reports of the deaths and injuries of internally displaced persons in an aerial attack on the embattled Mawza district in Yemen’s Taizz governorate. “This latest incident…

By Bernice Yeung For the first time, U.S. immigration officials are seeking to deport children who have received a special status for vulnerable migrants and are in the final stages of getting their green cards. State judges and immigration authorities…